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<\/a>First, you\u2019ve got your actual celebrities who feel that they\u2019ve got food knowledge to share with the world. Country singer Trisha Yearwood recently published her third cookbook, \u201cTrisha\u2019s Table,\u201d focusing on healthy versions of Southern comfort foods. Actress Gwyneth Paltrow embarked on a secondary career as a health and lifestyle guru, recently publishing her latest \u201cIt\u2019s All Good,\u201d <\/em>recipes that are free of dairy, eggs, sugar, gluten, and fish (try at your own risk). Even the late, lauded poet Maya Angelou wrote a few cookbooks, combining autobiographical anecdotes with recipes and health tips: \u201cHallelujah! The Welcome Table\u201d and \u201cGood Food, All Day Long.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/a>Then, you\u2019ve got books by the new field of celebrity chefs, who either became famous for their popular restaurants, or by starring on food-related TV reality shows. TV show \u201cMasterChef\u201d has put out a handful of cookbooks, including \u201cCooking Like a Master Chef\u201d by avant-garde chef-turned-TV host Graham Elliot. Heavy on photos, this book focuses on recipes that mix common meals and comfort foods with unusual partners like truffled popcorn or cheddar cheese risotto. Elliot\u2019s rage-prone co-star Gordon Ramsay has also penned a number of cookbooks, such as \u201cGordon Ramsay\u2019s Home Cooking,\u201d which is noticeably more exotic in its dishes and ingredients. (I presume Ramsay also writes with heavy use of caps lock). We can also expect a cookbook next year from our La Mesa culinary celebrity, Claudia Sandoval, who won the aforementioned \u201cMasterChef\u201d challenge for 2015. \u201cClaudia\u2019s Cocina\u201d is scheduled for release in May of next year.<\/p>\n